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...lavish production of two of Ursula K. LeGuin's Earthsea novels, A Wizard of Earthsea and The Tombs of Atuan. The movie of C.S. Lewis' beloved Chronicles of Narnia is in development with Andrew Adamson, who co-directed the animated hit Shrek, a more comic medieval fantasy. Miramax will shortly begin work on a movie version of the best-selling Artemis Fowl books, a hot contender for the post--Harry Potter sweepstakes, and the company paid seven figures for book and film rights to the Bartimaeus trilogy, a series of novels about a jinni and a young magician by British...
Most of the uproar stems from a conservative organization called the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, which previously assailed Disney's Miramax division, among other studios, for films it deemed blasphemous. Whether it will succeed with the utterly independent Samuel Goldwyn Films is more problematic. So far, the league has generated a lot of news stories and a letter-writing campaign that has brought 5,000 letters to Goldwyn...
...Noyce has had his own war to fight. A while back, he got a positive reaction when he showed a rough cut of the film to his sponsors at Miramax Films in New York. The date of that screening was Sept. 10, 2001. Events in New York the following day changed many things; one was the studio's response to The Quiet American. In an interview last week with the New York Times, Miramax boss Harvey Weinstein says he was told, "You can't release this now: it's unpatriotic." The company shelved this "movie about bad Americans" for more...
...production team as Life is Beautiful and a budget of [EURO] 40 million, a record for an Italian film - makes good on his pledge to stay true to the original story. But once the ballyhoo of the Italian release is over, Benigni, his wife and muse Nicoletta Braschi and Miramax co-chairman Harvey Weinstein will enter an editing suite in the U.S. to prepare a dubbed and scrubbed version of the film for the U.S., where it is due to open on Dec. 25 at 2,500 cinemas. The company admits that it is making "nips and tucks" to Pinocchio...
...production team as Life is Beautiful and a budget of [EURO] 40 million, a record for an Italian film - makes good on his pledge to stay true to the original story. But once the ballyhoo of the Italian release is over, Benigni, his wife and muse Nicoletta Braschi and Miramax co-chairman Harvey Weinstein will enter an editing suite in the U.S. to prepare a dubbed and scrubbed version of the film for the U.S., where it is due to open on Dec. 25 at 2,500 cinemas. The company admits that it is making "nips and tucks" to Pinocchio...